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Tom Johnson

Kill Math

Some things here that will surely be of interest to some of the FRIAM-ers.

http://worrydream.com/KillMath/

Designer Bret Victor hopes to make the abstract and conceptual to real and concrete with Kill Math.

Kill Math is my umbrella project for techniques that enable people to model and solve meaningful problems of quantity using concrete representations and intuition-guided exploration. In the long term, I hope to develop a widely-usable, insight-generating alternative to symbolic math.

As part of the early project, Victor developed a prototype interface on the iPad to help you understand dynamical systems. It probably sounds boring to you, but the video and explanation will change your mind:

Statistics has the same problem with concepts, and is one of the main reasons why people hate it so much. They learn about curves, hypothesis tests, and distribution tables, and the takeaway is that there are some equations that you plug numbers into. Sad. Of course there are plenty of people working on that, but there's still a ways to go.

-tj

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Owen Densmore

Re: Kill Math

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I totally LOVE this!

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On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Some things here that will surely be of interest to some of the FRIAM-ers.

http://worrydream.com/KillMath/

Designer Bret Victor hopes to make the abstract and conceptual to real and concrete with Kill Math.
Kill Math is my umbrella project for techniques that enable people to model and solve meaningful problems of quantity using concrete representations and intuition-guided exploration. In the long term, I hope to develop a widely-usable, insight-generating alternative to symbolic math.

As part of the early project, Victor developed a prototype interface on the iPad to help you understand dynamical systems. It probably sounds boring to you, but the video and explanation will change your mind:

Statistics has the same problem with concepts, and is one of the main reasons why people hate it so much. They learn about curves, hypothesis tests, and distribution tables, and the takeaway is that there are some equations that you plug numbers into. Sad. Of course there are plenty of people working on that, but there's still a ways to go.

-tj

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Nazia Arbab

Re: Kill Math

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Awesome work!

"Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity."
Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason

>>> Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> 10/5/2011 4:09 PM >>>
Some things here that will surely be of interest to some of the FRIAM-ers.

http://worrydream.com/KillMath/

Designer Bret Victor hopes to make the abstract and conceptual to real and concrete with Kill Math.

Kill Math is my umbrella project for techniques that enable people to model and solve meaningful problems of quantity using concrete representations and intuition-guided exploration. In the long term, I hope to develop a widely-usable, insight-generating alternative to symbolic math.

-tj

Russ Abbott

Re: Kill Math

I watched the video but didn't see a way to download the actual system. Is that possible?

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On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Nazia Arbab <[hidden email]> wrote:

Awesome work!

"Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity."
Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason

>>> Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> 10/5/2011 4:09 PM >>>
Some things here that will surely be of interest to some of the FRIAM-ers.

http://worrydream.com/KillMath/

Designer Bret Victor hopes to make the abstract and conceptual to real and concrete with Kill Math.

Kill Math is my umbrella project for techniques that enable people to model and solve meaningful problems of quantity using concrete representations and intuition-guided exploration. In the long term, I hope to develop a widely-usable, insight-generating alternative to symbolic math.

As part of the early project, Victor developed a prototype interface on the iPad to help you understand dynamical systems. It probably sounds boring to you, but the video and explanation will change your mind:

Statistics has the same problem with concepts, and is one of the main reasons why people hate it so much. They learn about curves, hypothesis tests, and distribution tables, and the takeaway is that there are some equations that you plug numbers into. Sad. Of course there are plenty of people working on that, but there's still a ways to go.

-tj

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lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

Parks, Raymond

Re: Kill Math

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Why am I reminded of the "Math Class is Tough" Teen Talk Barbie?

On Oct 5, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:

Some things here that will surely be of interest to some of the FRIAM-ers.

http://worrydream.com/KillMath/

Designer Bret Victor hopes to make the abstract and conceptual to real and concrete with Kill Math.
Kill Math is my umbrella project for techniques that enable people to model and solve meaningful problems of quantity using concrete representations and intuition-guided exploration. In the long term, I hope to develop a widely-usable, insight-generating alternative to symbolic math.
As part of the early project, Victor developed a prototype interface on the iPad to help you understand dynamical systems. It probably sounds boring to you, but the video and explanation will change your mind:
Statistics has the same problem with concepts, and is one of the main reasons why people hate it so much. They learn about curves, hypothesis tests, and distribution tables, and the takeaway is that there are some equations that you plug numbers into. Sad. Of course there are plenty of people working on that, but there's still a ways to go.

-tj

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